There's been heightened chatter in the trade press these past few weeks about ebooks. Publishers are anxious not to miss the revolution taking place in cyberspace with music, information and even television promised to us via our mobile phones. But I will never read an ebook.

It's not just that books are special, that I love the smell of print on pages and the way you can fold down a corner to mark your place. It's not just that I like having them around as beloved objects in my home. It's more than that. It's the very technology used to transmit them that makes me feel ill and terrifies me.

I am very sensitive to mobiles. If three people are on their mobiles on a bus there's enough radiation banging around the cattle truck to make me feel so sick that I have to get off. We had to get rid of wifi and dect cordless phones in my home because they too send out pulsed radiation every minute of the day and made me feel very ill indeed - giddy, confused, sick, irritable, prone to headaches and every bug going and unable to sleep properly (symptoms which I'm told are associated with mild radiation exposure. How many people realise that their cordless phones are like mini mobile phone masts in their front room?)

When I walk into shops or offices zapped with wireless technology my head spins. It feels as if there are a hundred thousand tiny fingers being poked at me. I can't think straight and nausea swells. At a recent 24-hour break with my husband at an expensive hotel in Brighton the bedrooms were flooded with wifi. They boasted in the literature beside the bed that guests could enjoy all day, all night access to the internet. For what I wondered? To access their email or pornography?

When I asked the manageress if they could possibly turn it off overnight, she said that might be possible. Hmnnn I wondered. Would they? And to my husband's amazement I felt them turn it off at 11pm and then on again at 7.10am.

It's hard sometimes not to think that I am the mad one, that actually it's just my own neurosis imagining all this. But I know too that I am not alone. There are others out there who know this technology is affecting their health and still more who have no idea why they don't feel well. One day, when enough research has been done into wifi's health effects I strongly suspect it may even be banned from use in public places, just like smoking is.

We have walked blindly into this new technology, seduced by its powerful magic without any thought given to what the rapidly increasing use of radiation through the air waves could be doing to our health. So that's why I will never read an ebook.